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For a discussion of school inclusion and mergers see Wikipedia talk:Schools

Schoolwatch
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This is a resource to monitor the process of articles on schools. The criteria for inclusion of school articles are not generally agreed upon and may or may not include notability, verifiability and the quality of the article in question.

See also:
 * Schools
 * Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive
 * Watch/schoolwatch/New
 * WikiProject Schools
 * WikiProject Schools/alumni

Listed on Articles for deletion
Please see Watch/schoolwatch/Votes for deletion archive for an up-to-date list.

Special collaboration

 * Dawes Middle School Currently a microstub and merge candidate.
 * Goodrich Middle School Keep candidate although could be expanded.
 * North Star Middle School Currently a microstub and merge candidate.
 * Park Middle School (Lincoln, NE) Currently a microstub and merge candidate.
 * Pound Middle School Currently a microstub and merge candidate.
 * Scott Middle School Currently a microstub and merge candidate.
 * Lincoln High School (Lincoln, NE) Keep candidate although could be expanded.
 * Lincoln East High School Currently a stub and merge candidate.
 * Lincoln Northeast High School Currently a stub and merge candidate.
 * Lincoln North Star High School Currently a stub and merge candidate.
 * Lincoln Southeast High School Good school article definite keep.
 * Lincoln Southwest High School Good school article definite keep.

What does the above mean??

Regarding the current proposal being discussed on the talk pages at WP:SCH. A Keep or Merge vote is being touted as a compromise that might get us out of school AFD hell. Presently people create school articles containing neutral, verifiable information and it is impossible to delete them, even though many have a desire to do so. Rather than striving for an impossible consensus to delete any given school article, it is preferable, and takes much less energy, to merge the text of the article into an article about a suitable habitation or administrative unit: a city, county or state, or a school district, either a local education authority or other school system. This should be done while taking care not to delete the information contained in the article.

How would this compromise work? One solution is to tag new school articles that are considered candidates for merging with a template such as the following, template:schoolzone, to warn those unfamiliar with the process from tagging it for AFD. This will also serve as a holding category and bring to attention schools that need to be merged or expanded.

Merging is appropriate if the school article is both below three sentences and lacks any sort of illustration, boxed info-template or picture. If the article is merged, the current location should be replaced by a redirect, and the edit history maintained for future use.

We now have an good chance to test this proposal since User:Bp28 has just created the school district page Lincoln Public Schools including new pages for all the middle schools and high schools in the district. Already four of the middle schools have been tagged for deletion by User:Luigi30. Do we really have the energy for 11 middle school AFD's? I have tagged the remaining schools with the schoolzone template in the hope it will prevent the others reaching AFD.

Above is a list of the schools and a description their current state.

Let's see how these grow over the next week and then discuss which ones if any are merge candidates after that period of time. This will be a useful exercise for several reasons:
 * 1) It will help convince those who wish to delete such articles that given a chance they will grow if less time is spent arguing in AFD.
 * 2) It will help determine what form a merge candidate will take.
 * 3) It will also help us reach a consensus of the type of school article that is worthy of being kept without merging.

I urge everyone here to participate in this project as an exercise in good faith. David D. (Talk) 00:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

High Priority

 * Wilmington Friends School - Around for over two centuries, but only one sentence written so far.
 * Walter Panas High School
 * cleaned up, corrected town link, added more info, but still very stubby.


 * Al-Huda Islamic Academy
 * Ecole Secondaire Publique Deslauriers (Added Dec 27, 2005) - A French language school in Ottawa, which currently has just one sentence, and an empty info box.
 * Marygiri - a mess. (Should it exist at all?)

Medium Priority

 * South Luton High School
 * Louisburg High School
 * hate site
 * Now just a sub-stub with bad formatting


 * Stewart Middle School (Norristown, Pennsylvania)
 * wikified with stubs by kappa
 * Southwestern High School (Kentucky)
 * wikified with stubs by kappa
 * Mayde Creek High School
 * wikified with stubs by kappa
 * Baldwin Boys High School
 * wikified with stubs by kappa
 * Lafayette High School (Lafayette)
 * Jenks Middle School
 * Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool
 * Requires translator
 * The Priory Lsst
 * McLean High School

Low Priority

 * Jasper High School
 * Central Catholic Marianist High School
 * Lake Orion High School
 * Marlboro High School
 * Howell High School (New Jersey)
 * Freehold Township High School
 * Freehold High School
 * Teaneck High School
 * Link to page with history of school est 1922)
 * West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South
 * West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
 * One of the two WWPHS has a unique architectural design worth noting - I believe it was written up back in the day. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 20:16, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Completed

 * Oakton High School excellent example of organic growth
 * Bayridge_Secondary_School
 * Expanded article and created page for Limestone District School Board. Still needs work.
 * Alumni section added
 * Hendersion county high school redirect to good article
 * Westminster upper school
 * Redirected to Westminster School


 * Miami Central High School
 * Miami Central Senior High
 * Selective high schools finished
 * Moved article to more specific title.
 * Actually, I just made it a redirect to the list of selective high schools in NSW. "Selective High School" is apparently a New South Wales only kinda term.
 * Scooby-Doo and th Ghoul School finished
 * It's not a school. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 20:17, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * tagged for speedy delete David D. (Talk) 20:31, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Bayridge high school
 * Secondary school is canadian for high school. Merged
 * Friday Harbor High School
 * Added an education section to Friday_Harbor, Washington
 * William Penn Charter School
 * alumni added and expanded

Recent redirects
See Schools for unofficial recommendations and discussion of mergers and redirects. If redirects are done, please expand the article with verifiable and signficant information at the same time. If redirects are added, please add them below, under the date the redirect was put in place, along with the target. This section is only for redirects placed on what was previously a stand-alone article.

December 21, 2005
 * Dawes Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools
 * North Star Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools
 * Scott Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools
 * Pound Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools

December 13, 2005
 * Irving Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools
 * Lefler Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools
 * Mickle Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools
 * Lux Middle School -> Lincoln Public Schools

Copyright violations needing rewrite
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